Huntsville gazette., 1887-11-26
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


Senator Vance, while riding in lVad
wagon at Asheville, N. c., few days ago,
was thrown out, and, falling on his head,
received a cut about three inches long,
reaching to the bone. The injury, though
severe, is not dangerous.
Pharash Garter died recently at Osyka,
Miss, aged ninety years and some months.
He was a native of South Carolina. Mr..
Carter was highly esteemed.
Colonel J. W. Scaife died at his home
near Trenton, Ark, few evenings since,
aftes an ordinary illness. He was we'll
known in the county and State in social
and political circles. He was one of the
f'E Ear lnent planters of Phillips County.
He seavees a wife and children.
HenrSAIoiman and Jesse James got into
difficulty at Redman's Camp, Ga, a few
nigats ago, when James was cut in the
back, breast and abdomen by Holman.
Holman was arrested in Chattanooga and
tah ID back to Georgia The trouble grew
out Of quarrel over woman.
H nry Falconer, freight conductor on
the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham
railroad, while coupling cars at Holly
Springs, Miss, few DAYS ago, was run
over and killed. His head was almost
severed from his body. The deceased was
about thirty three years of age.
Robert McCrearv, son of ex-Governor,
now Congressman McCreary, shot Will
lam Schilling on tie street at Richmond
KY, few nights ago The mans wound
was not considered dangerous at first,
but he died from the effect shortly after
wards.
Two little children, whose parents live
on a plantation close to Helena, Ark,
were seriously burned few evenings
since. One of the children died from the
effects of the burns the same night. The
parents were absent from home, and left
the little ones in charge of themselves
and large fire burning in the room. Tho
father saw the flames issuing from the
I house and rushed to the children's rescue,
BIZ could not save one from a frightful
death.
Samuel Cathcart made his appearance
lin Chattanooga, Tenn, a few days ago,
searching for mysterious woman who
! tri d to commit suicide last April by TAX
4 IN morphine in street car. Cathcart was
/ arrested on a telegram from j. II. Sulli-
1 van, cashier of the Laurens Bank, Of
Laurens, S. c., charging him with obtain
/ ing money under false pretenses at Green
| vile, Newberry and Columbia, S. G. He
was locked up to await requistion. The
woman he was hunting has been found.
Thomas Green, of Mapsville, KY, shot
and killed Lew Baldwin, of NichOlasville,
! in political row at Lexington, KY.
/ Near Richmond, KY, few days ago, q
/ fozen army crackers were plowed up by a
/ fsc1ner They resembled in appearance
/ ana strength ordinary restaurant pam
/ cakes.
Fire It Decatur, Ala, few days ago,
I DESTROY I'd nearly an entire block in the
| business portion Of the city. The loss is
from $7s 900 to 800, 900.
| The death is announced at her home,
near F,ris, Tenn, of the wife of United
States Indian Commissioner j. .. G. At
/ kins.
! A freat the fair grounds in Jackson,
Tenn, few nights ago, destroyed seven
/ teen laige stock stalls. This fire is be-
/ ieved Cd have been the work Of an incen.
| liary.
The Ictors who announced some time
ago that the epidemic of yellow fever at
Tampa, Fla, was virtually at an end seem
to have been too sanguine. There were at
! last acbunts thirteen cases of the disease
in the hps spital there.
! VIM. Purcell, farmer, living near
| Owenstbro, KY, was run over by heav-
| ily load ded wagon a few days ago. One
wheel pbs sed over his breast and auoth-
er over bis stomach. He lived an hour.
Extensive forest fires have been raging
throughout the western counties of Ten
nessee and the eastern counties of Ar
kansas. The surrounding atmosphere is
so full of smoke that navigation on the
Mississippi river is delayed.
A portion of the Georgia and Alabama
border is in state of insurrection against
Mormon missionaries, who have been
campaigning for converts with such suc-
cess as to alarm the general community.
James Wheeler, a young carpenter,
committed suicide at Knoxville, Tenn,
few days ago by taking chloroform. His
wife, to whom he had been married but
two years, secured divorce a few days
previous to the suicide on the ground Of
cruelty, and the subject had been press
ing on his mind.
Thirteen thousand five hundred bales of
cotton were burned at Memphis, Tenn,
few days since by fire which started in
the buildings of the Merchants Cotton
Compress &, Storage Company.
Charles Favor, a butcher, got into an
nltercaton with G. Blum. at st. Joseph,
La, few days ago, and fred two shots
at him. He then rode away, called his
sister from school and shot at her. Pur-
sued by sheriff and posse, he fired into
the crowd and then put bullet into his
own breast. inficting a probably fatal
wound. None of the other shots took ef-
feet.
Robert McCreary, son of Congressman
McCreary, was acquitted at Richmond,
KY, at his examination trial for the kill.
ing of VIM. Schilling, restaurant keep
or. 1t was held that McCreary did the
shooting in self-defense.
Enough iron for the Tennessee Midland
railroad has already arrived in Jackson,
Miss, to complete twenty miles of the
track. Those who are in a position to
know say the road will be finished and
the cars running from Jackson to Mem.
phis by January, 1888.
Interest in the Shelby Moore murder
trial at Wickliffe, KY, is again rampant,
by reason of alleged new and important
evidence secured by 1.-THE prosecution.
Shelby will be taken before the Circuit
Judge of Ballard Coun ty this week, on
writ of habeas corpus demanding that he